Whatever the reason, long-time residents aren’t leaving (or if they do, it’s never for very long) and folks who relocate here from other cities — even great ones — are finding in Austin the home they never had.

Created by YouTube user Arthur Kendrick, this short stop motion video embodies all of the weepy feels experienced by those who finally make it home to Austin:

Radical Face‘s leader Ben Cooper actually gave Kendrick explicit permission to use his poignant song “Welcome Home” in the film. Did Cooper fall in love with ATX during SXSW 2010? We certainly wouldn’t blame him.

Stop motion is the process of combining a series of photographs in which the subject is moved in small increments between each frame to create the illusion of movement, much like a flip book. In rotoscoping, animators draw objects over live video footage, to give films more of a cartoon or comic book vibe.